Toy Box: Furyk fine with new putter, driver

Toy Box: Furyk fine with new putter, driver

Jim Furyk fine with new driver, putter

PGA Championship runner-up Jim Furyk requested a new Odyssey Versa No. 1 Wide (white-black-white) putter on Monday and received it at Oak Hill the next day.

It had a single-bend shaft rather than a standard double-bend shaft (Furyk prefers the single-bend look). It had some extra offset to fit his eye, and it was 35 1/2 inches (an increase of one-half inch for Furyk).

Furyk also continued to play with a Callaway FT Optiforce driver that he added to his bag two weeks earlier at the RBC Canadian Open. It was the 440cc version with a Fujikura Speeder VC 6.2X shaft tipped one inch with a finished length of 44 1/2 inches. The measured loft was 10.1 degrees.

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SHORT SHOTS: With Jason Dufner using an ’ahina 60X driver shaft from Mitsubishi Rayon, it meant that 14 of the last 40 majors have been won with Mitsubishi driver shafts. Mitsubishi captured the driver shaft count at the PGA. . . . Not only did TaylorMade win the driver count at the PGA Championship, but the company’s new SLDR driver was the No. 1 model in play with 31. . . . Dufner and Jim Furyk putted with oversized SuperStroke putter grips. . . . One-hundred-twenty-one of 156 players used Golf Pride grips (winner Jason Dufner played Golf Pride Z-Grip Cord). . . . A total of 117 players used True Temper shafts . . . . Nicolas Colsaerts, the PGA Tour’s longest driver (306.7-yard average) joined Phil Mickelson in the driverless category. Colsaerts removed his driver and went with a Callaway X Hot 3Deep off the tee. His specs: 12.7-degree actual lofts, 43 3/8-inch length after 1.5 inches of tipping. His shaft was an Aldila Tour Green ATX 85x. . . . Aldila took the overall wood and hybrid manufacturer counts at the PGA Championship. Aldila totaled 47 Tour Green and Tour Blue shafts in play at the PGA. . . . Andrew Svoboda won the Price Cutter Charity Championship on the Web.com Tour with a Fujikura Fuel 2.0 shaft in his TaylorMade R1 driver. . . . U.S. Open winner Justin Rose changed his 3-wood for the PGA Championship. At Merion for the U.S. Open, Rose used a TaylorMade RBZ Stage 2 Tour 16.5-degree model. At Oak Hill, he went down 2 degrees to a 14.5-degree RBZ Stage 2 Tour.